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Advent and the Most Pernicious Program of All

December 20, 2011

Here’s the third post in my Advent and Star Trek series where we actually get to the advent part! This was originally posted on December, 3, 2011 ————————— So have you ever thought of Star Trek’s “Borg” and Advent in the same thought and discussion?  Probably not.  But here it goes.  Of course context helps [...]

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Self: The Most Pernicious Program of All

December 17, 2011

Here’s the second post of my re-release of this advent series.  This post was originally posted December 1st, 2010. ———————————– This is part two out of three of a mini-blog series on what I’m calling “collective fusion.”  This won’t make as much sense without part one so for part one click here. In part one [...]

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Collective Fusion – Resistance is not Futile

December 15, 2011

I’m re-posting an advent series as we approach Christmas. These posts sparked a lot of discussion last year for me so I’m excited to re-release them. This post was first posted on November 30th, 2010. ————————- All right…Here’s one for you trekkies! Actually three since this is part one of three posts on the theme [...]

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Power, Siblings, and Identity

November 9, 2011

Here’s a 30 second video illustrating power dynamics and identify formation from the sibling perspective.  Good reminder that some are in a position to get comfortable exercising power and others develop in situations where they are used to adapting to power. I took this video at a park about a year ago of my two [...]

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Names and Reputations

September 19, 2011
This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Future of Cru

After the first post on Transferable Training, it’s time for post #2 in this short blog series on some of what I perceive to be needed culture change in CRU as we move into the future with a new name and renewed commitment to what God has called the organization to.   And in light of [...]

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Why I Should Watch More Barbie

April 14, 2011

….according to my six year old daughter Morgan. So I’ve posted a couple posts already about Barbie, the last being one about identity formation among young girls especially.  I thought I’d make it a third since my daughter keeps giving me good material. I’ve been very honest with my daughter than I’m not a big [...]

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Barbie, Princesses & Identity Formation

April 12, 2011

I’m going to rattle off a second straight Barbie themed post, because it’s part of my life stage with a 6 year old daughter right now (never mind that my 3 year old son is almost as big of a fan). Many, many have referenced over time the impact of many of the key female [...]

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My Gen X Reflections on Childhood Heroines

March 29, 2011

My head is about to explode these days from all the stuff I’m having to do, prepare, think about, and read.  So I’m getting away from more serious minded things for a while here for my own sanity. My family was out at a TGIF’s last week and we were in a booth where there [...]

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My Thoughts on Dawn Treader and Identity

December 22, 2010

Last week I got away for a couple hours to see the new Voyage of the Dawn Treader movie.  I wasn’t sure how they would make a good movie out of it, but I really enjoyed it.  This book has some of the more vivid spiritual metaphors of the whole Narnia series and I liked [...]

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